Environmentalists have won concessions from the Bush administration that will limit logging in the Tongass National Forest in Alaska’s panhandle — one of the largest temperate rainforests in the world. Believe it or not, this is a controversy that stretches waaaay back to the Clinton administration’s efforts to put logging and mining off-limits in the roadless areas of national forests. …

There’s a darn good reason that many endangered species aren’t recovering — Congress and the Bush administration have systematically underfunded federal agencies trying to carry it out, enviros say in a report released today …